Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)

Alibaba Qwen chatreasoningtool_usecode Long

API ID: qwen/qwen-plus-2025-07-28

Input Price
$0.26
/1M tokens
Output Price
$0.78
/1M tokens

About Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)

Qwen Plus is Alibaba's balanced cloud-hosted model, offering strong capability at moderate pricing. The model delivers excellent performance on reasoning, coding, and multilingual tasks while being more cost-effective than Qwen Max. Qwen Plus features a substantial context window and supports function calling for building AI applications. It excels at general conversation, content generation, and business automation tasks. The model is optimized for production deployments requiring reliable performance without premium pricing. For organizations seeking capable AI through Alibaba's cloud with favorable economics, Qwen Plus provides excellent value. It's the recommended choice for most production use cases.

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Price Ranking
#743 lowest price among 950 Chat models

Model Specifications

Context Length
1.0M
Max Output
33k
Release Date
2025-09-08
Capabilities
chat reasoning tool_use code
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Complex reasoning, math problems, multi-step logic
  • Code generation, debugging, code review, refactoring
  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

Consider Alternatives For

  • Image understanding (needs vision capability)
  • Simple Q&A (cheaper models available)

๐Ÿ’ฐ Real-World Cost Examples

Estimated monthly costs for common use cases

Personal AI Assistant
$0.35
/month
50 conversations/day, ~500 tokens each
Code Copilot
$3.12
/month
200 completions/day, ~1k tokens each
Customer Service Bot
$10.92
/month
1000 tickets/day, ~800 tokens each
Data Analysis Pipeline
$15.21
/month
500 analyses/day, ~2k tokens each

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๐Ÿš€ Quick Start

Get started with Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) API

OpenAI-compatible SDK
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen/qwen-plus-2025-07-28",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)